Metallic barrel.



A. T. KRUSE.

METALLIC BARREL. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 8, 1906.

Patented E60. l, 968.

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.tion of the barrel or vessel ALFRED TL reuse, or DEFIANCE,

COMPANY, DEFIANOE OHIO. A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

immune BARREL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 1, 19Q6.

Application filed August 8, 1906. Serial No. 329,698.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known-that I, ALFRED T. Knosn, a citizen of the United States,residing at Defiance, in the county; of Defiance and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and use ful Improvements in Metallic Barrels, ofwhich the followin is a specification My invention relates toimprovements in the construction of receptacles and particularly to theconstruction of metallic barrels and analogous vessels designed to carry(iuidsor other substances which necessitate a fluid-or liquid tightreceptacle."

The invention relates more particularly to the method of constructingand means for securing the head or end to the main body porand unitingthe meeting edges thereof toforni a fluid-tight barrel or package.

One of the great vdifficulties in the manulactureof steel barrel hasbeen the matter of securing the heads to the body in a proper, cheap andexpeditious manner, and this remark applies with especial force to thesecuring of the second head. In securing the first head a die or form.may be placed in the body so as to ptevent the head from slipping ontofplace or into the body while it is being secured; and, when secured, thedie or form may he slipped out of the body of the barrel through theopening at the other end. This method cannot be used with the second.head the securing of which in a proper, cheap and expeditious mannerpresents great difliculties which I have bvercome in my invention byrolling or pressing in each end of the drum in which the head is setsaid shoulder from being forced: into the body of the barrel any furtherl th an the depth 01 the flange while the flange of the head is beingsecured to the flange of the body by means of clamping-member orlocking-ring taking over and securing the meeting .tlanges thus securelypositioned.

The mrz'unount object of the invention is to produce a generallyimproved sheet metal vessel which will be exceedingly snn-,

.ple in construction, cheap of manufacture, and durable in use.

With these ends in view, the invention consists in the novelconstruction, arrangement and combination of parts, hereinafterdescribed, illustrated in the accompanying or bodyportion of the .barrelan annularshoulder and flange on and being prevented by clearly in Figs.1, and 3,-

' When the heads have been placed within drawings, 'and particularlypointed out in "the appended'claims. v

Referring now to the accompanying drawings, tion, Figure 1, is a sideelevation of a barrel embodying my invention, with parts broken Fig. 2,a plan away to show construction. view of the improved clamping orloc'knngring or member for attaching the heads to the mainbody portionof the barrel. Fig.

3, a detail view showing relative position of the engaging flanges ofthe'head and body portion of. the barrel with clainpin -member attached.Fig. .4, a detail sectional" view-of a' portion of the clamping-memberor -lock-' ing-ring showingposition of its walls preparatory to beingclamped about the flanged portions of the head and body of the barrel toform thechiine for the same, as shown in Figs. 1 aud t Similar numeralsof reference designate like parts throughout all the figures of thedrawings.

OHIO, 'A'ssienon TO THE A ERI AN STEEL PACKAGE forming a part of thisspecifical r The main body or cylindrical portion 1,

of the barrel or receptacle may be of any suitable and convenient formand is provided at each end with annular flanges 2,' and, shoulders 3,adapted to support the heads or ends to be now described.

The heads or ends 4;, of the barrel or. vessel, maybe of any suitableandconvenient form and have their edges bent up to form annular flanges5,abutting against the inner periphery of the flanges 2, and eachheadrests uponthe shoulder 3, with the edge-of the flange 5, preferablyflush with the adjacent edge-of the flange 2, as show i in Figs. 1, and3, of the; drawings.

The'flanges of thelheads 'or ends and the main body portion are securelylocked or crhnped. into engagement with each other by means. of aclamping-giember or looking ring'or band 6, consist ng of a main body--supporting-member or side wall Land 2. second or auxiliary bendablelocking and, clamping-flange ormernber 8, thus -provid-' ing an annularrecess 9,-adapted to take over, and receive the flanges of the main bodyportion and heads, as shown most of the drawin s'.

the ends. of the barrel or vessel, as shown and described, theclamping-member or lockin ring, 6, islaced or forced down over te'abutting iiiinges. of the heads and able crimping or pressing-rollWhen the I scribed, it will be observed that the parts I are securelyinterlocked body portion and the members 7, and 8, are crimped about thesame bymeans of a suit having a series of crimp and press in saidmembers and the flanges 2, and 5, interposed between the same, a seriesof registering and indentationsor depressions 10, in said flanges, andlike indentations or depressions 11, in one of the members with a likeseries ofstuds 12, in the other. The clampingmember or locking-fin 6 isformed of suitable malleable m'ateri'a, and when crimped and clampedabout the scribed, may be further fastened by brazing at the meetingedges thereof with the con tiguous walls of the barrel.

arts are secured as above dewithwachother by means of the series ofregistering indentations ordepressions formed therein;

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, the principles of construction and advantages ofmy invention will be readily understood. 1

Having thus described my invention, without having attempted to setforth all the forms in which it maybe made, orall the modes of its use,I declare that what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1s,

A barrel or similar vessel, comprising annular flanges mounted thereinstuds or protuberances adapted to engaging parts as above dea main bodyflanges and shoulders, heads provided with and resting on saidshoulders, and clamping-members taking over said flanges 'oi the bodyand heads and provided with a series of registering indentationsengaging said flanges portion provided with annular by means of a likeseries of indentations formed therein.

2. A barrel, comprising an end flangcd body provided with an annularshoulder, a flanged head mounted therein and abutting against saidshoulder, and a clamping-member provided with a body-suppol'tinganeniberand a bendable locking-flange taking over the edges of said body andhead and provided with a series of indentatio -ysgngaging therewith. J

3. A barrel, comprising a body provided with an annular shoulder, a headmounted 'therein and resting on said shoulder, and a elaniping-memberprovided with a bendable locking-flangetaking over the edges of saidbodyand head and secured thereto by means of a series of indentationsengaging there- With.

in testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALFRED 'r. KRUSE. Witnesses:

CLIFFORD D. SoI-IMAL'rz, A. M. Knnsn.

